"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.." - Winston Churchill
We're no BIG fan of George W. Bush, but Laura Bush is a very nice lady (unlike the 'real' Michelle Obama) and didn't deserve this attack. These lies from Keith Olbermann and his nasty vicious personal attack against a former first lady was so unnecessary.
Keith Olbermann really needs his to get his ass kicked. He is total vermin..
Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal.
The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
NOTE- It's funny how all of these environmental hypocrites like Al Gore claim the seas will rise, shore lines will disappear, yet they buy oceanfront property!
Turns out God wants him on the floor, to borrow a line from “Hoosiers,” and also that our political system, which was peachy keen six months ago when he was cruising to the Republican nomination, is now “broken.” You know, Frum made a good point in his post backing Rubio: When Lieberman went indie after losing the 2006 primary to Lamont, at least there were important policy differences at stake. There’s nothing at stake here except ambition READ MORE...
REMEMBER THIS JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO?
Republicans like Crist are the ones who taint the party...
Via Cubachi, here’s Pence’s floor speech in favor of the bill. An unanswered question per yesterday’s post: Why does Congress need to act here at all? The Puerto Rican government is perfectly capable of calling its own referendums (as it’s done three times before) and Congress is perfectly capable of taking the results under advisement. No need to nudge them.
Story from HotAir-
I made the case yesterday that there’s still a long way to go before PR becomes number 51, but I doubt that’ll comfort most of our commenters. Oh well. Proponents say the measure gives citizens of the island the right to self-determination. Critics say the measure is a device to impose statehood on a population that doesn’t want it. Thursday’s action was nonbinding, and if Puerto Ricans eventually select statehood, Congress would still have to vote to admit the island to the union as the 51st state.
The issue divided Democrats and Republicans alike as liberal Democrats with ties to Puerto Rico teamed with conservative Republicans to oppose the measure. The divides were particularly stark among members of the House Republican leadership team. House Minority Leader John Boehner,R-Ohio, voted against the legislation. Meantime, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., and Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence, R-Ind., voted in favor. READ MORE...
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Gunmen stormed into a bar, dragged out eight people and killed them in the parking lot, the first of several shootings in this violent border city Wednesday that left 16 dead, including a man in a wheelchair.
In one incident, a car chase and shootout killed three people in front of an elementary school, creating a panic among students, teachers and parents.
Battles between rival drug gangs have made Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, one of the world's deadliest cities. More than 800 people have been killed this year in the city of 1.3 million people.
Armed men burst into the Aristos bar in the middle of the night, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office. Eight people were forced out into the parking lot and shot to death.
The victims had not been identified, but Sandoval said at least one appeared to be a teenage boy.
The shootout in front of the Benito Juarez elementary school erupted hours later. Sandoval said a woman and two men were found dead inside a car.
Gunmen in a car chased down another vehicle and opened fire in front of the school around noon, said a teacher who asked not to be quoted by name out of fear for his safety.
The teacher said a pregnant teacher and three students suffered panic attacks and were taken to a hospital. Classes were canceled for the rest of the day, and parents rushed to pick up their children.
Gunmen opened fire on another car elsewhere in the city, killing four young men inside, Sandoval said. Separately, a gang of armed men killed a man sitting in a wheelchair on the sidewalk, he said. READ MORE...
Last week, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed an immigration law that launched a national debate. It has also at least temporarily helped her own chances of remaining Arizona’s governor.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state shows that 56% now approve of the way Brewer is performing her role as governor. Two weeks ago, just 40% offered their approval. READ MORE...
Obama doesn't think ALL Americans are stupid, only the ones who support him.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) had some harsh words for President Barack Obama on Wednesday, accusing him of using the media to manipulate the American people.
Obama "thinks Americans are stupid," DeMint said.
From his interview with Radio America:
The president is the one who put the kibosh on working together, and now he's just trying to use the mainstream media to confuse the American people. The fact is I think he thinks Americans are stupid, and he's going to play this out until he gets a headline in every paper that Republicans are obstructionist. The fact is, he's the one who's obstructing real bipartisanship.
DeMint claims that senators were close to a deal until the White House intervened.
"I thought we were moving toward a good bill until Chris Dodd went to the White House," DeMint said.
NOTE- We might have to side with the President on this one even though Demint makes a great point, 'Obama is manipulating.' Obama doesn't THINK all Americans are stupid, he knows that 51% of them are. (See idiots4obama.com)
We love Jim Demint, BUT there are a lot of dumb Americans with the power to vote. Just look who our President is! Maybe 51% of Americans are politically dumb. BUT, it's coming down thanks to FOX News, talk radio and the democrats worst enemy, YouTube! Obama is also helping Americans realize that voting for him was a huge mistake. You can also thank the Tea Parties, the most informed group of Americans. We would say around 40% of Americans are now politically dumb, according to polls.
Let's see how November goes..then we will know for sure.
Write or say anything about illegal immigration, and one should expect to be called all of that and more—even if a strong supporter of legal immigration. Illegal alien becomes undocumented worker. Anti-immigrant replaces anti-illegal-immigration. “Comprehensive” is a euphemism for amnesty. Triangulation abounds. A fiery op-ed grandstands and deplores the Arizona law, but offers no guidance about illegal immigration — and blames the employer for doing something that the ethnic lobby in fact welcomes.
Nevertheless, here it goes from a supporter of legal immigration: how are we to make sense of the current Arizona debate? One should show concern about some elements of the law, but only in the context of the desperation of the citizens of Arizona. And one should show some skepticism concerning mounting liberal anguish, so often expressed by those whose daily lives are completely unaffected by the revolutionary demographic, cultural, and legal transformations occurring in the American Southwest.
As I understand the opposition to the recent Arizona law, it boils down to something like the following: the federal government’s past decision not to enforce its own law should always trump the state’s right to honor it. That raises interesting questions: Does the state contravene federal authority by exercising it? If the federal government does not protect the borders of a state, does the state have a right to do it itself? The federal government has seemed in the past to be saying that if one circumvented a federal law, and was known to have circumvented federal law with recognized impunity, then there was no longer a law to be enforced.
A Losing Political Issue
The politics of illegal immigration are a losing proposition for liberals (one can see that in the resort to euphemism), even if they don’t quite see it that way. Here are ten considerations why. READ MORE...
Yea, call the cops on 90 year old tea party protesters so it will look like there's violence when there's not. Great plan!
This isn’t a SWAT team, actually, just local cops in riot gear, but it is the first time I’ve ever seen police in armor do a jaunty little parade down the street when responding to an event. I assure you, when the NYPD rolls up in helmets and shields, they’re all business. READ MORE...
Byron York today has an opinion piece that is excellent in the DC Examiner, and it's a takeoff, it's a reaction to a Michael Gerson column that ran in the Washington Post. Here's Byron York: "In the Washington Post, columnist and former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson pronounces the new Arizona immigration law 'understandable -- and dreadful.' Gerson says states do not have the authority 'to take control of American immigration policy -- an authority that Arizona has seized in order to abuse.' The effect of the new law, he argues, will be bad for everybody: It makes it harder for illegal immigrants to live without scrutiny -- but it also makes it harder for some American citizens to live without suspicion and humiliation. Americans are not accustomed to the command 'Your papers, please,' however politely delivered. The distinctly American response to such a request would be 'Go to hell,' and then 'See you in court.' READ MORE...
'We think YOU have made more than enough money for doing nothing but increasing the debt and killing jobs. You didn't even create or produce a product you bum!'
You would think Obama is an illegal alien himself the way he keeps repeating how bad the Arizona law is that um, makes ILLEGAL immigration, um, ILLEGAL. Duuhhh....
Is Obama worried an Arizona cop might ask him for his real birth certificate? lol
Obama has no interest in helping illegals learn English, wait in line, be responsible, blah blah blah. Why doesn't Obama just tell the truth and explain how we should give amnesty to illegals, sign them all up on welfare and other entitlement programs, establish 'social justice' and make sure they vote democrat.
Only an idiot would believe a word coming out of the mouth of this radical, ignorant, anti-American, compulsive lying President and STILL community organizer who specializes in attacking good American people who opposes a corrupt OUT OF CONTROL government. He's only good at printing money, spending it, and flying around on Air Force One making speeches and talking a lot of shit..
Give us a break...how much longer will these idiots continue to get conned by the most ignorant, dishonest and reckless President in U.S History?
Amid a national debate over Arizona's tough new immigration law, Republican Alabama gubernatorial candidate Tim James (and son of previous Gov. Fob James) vows in a new campaign ad that if he's elected, he'll give the state driver's license exam only in English, as a cost-saving measure.
"This is Alabama; we speak English," he says in the ad. "If you want to live here, learn it."
It's not clear how James thinks the change would save the state money. Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic says Alabama could actually lose billions of dollars in federal funding if it enacts the measure, and he points to an Alabama political blog that runs down the legal history for why the exams are in multiple languages.
James says he's been attacked by the left for the ad, singling out MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. A writer on her blog called the ad "just plain mean" and argued it was simply pandering to the candidate's conservative base.
"I have come under attack and under assault by a very interesting group of far-left reporters," he said Monday, according to the Birmingham News. He said English exams are a public safety issue, to ensure drivers can read signs. Exams are currently given in Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese, according to AOL News.
— Liz Goodwin is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News.
According to Fox News and other sources, the Navy has decided to name one of its newest ships after former Congressman and Slanderer John Murtha.
The Navy is naming its newest San Antonio-class amphibious transport-dock LPD 26 for Murtha, the powerful chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee who became an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq war.
Murtha died in February at age 77 after complications from gallbladder surgery.
San Antonio-class ships support Marines and can carry roughly 700 troops, their equipment and vehicles. They are usually named after cities; the USS Murtha will be a break from that tradition.
Not only will it be a break from tradition, but it will absolutely be a slap in the face to the Marines forced to be assigned to the ship. As you may recall, Murtha slandered Marines in 2005 by calling them "cold-blooded murderers" and never apologized for it after EACH AND EVERY MARINE was acquitted. He labeled them murderers BEFORE any trial or evidence was collected and purported to have all the "evidence" to defend his statements prior to any trial.
In an editorial to the Philadelphia Enquirer, Robert Greer, a Life Member of the Marine Corps League, had some pretty pointed words as well about the Navy's Decision:
Before we name the LPD 26 San Antonio-class amphibious dock ship after John Murtha we should first consider the impact that that act would have on those 700 Marines who would be asked to serve on that ship.
Major John Murtha was the S-2 Intelligence Officer for the First Battalion, First Marines in Vietnam. Serving under him in the capacity of forward observer/intelligence photographer was Sgt. Scott Camil, 1st Bn., 11th Marines, attached to 1st Bn, 1st Marines.
At the Winter Soldier Hearings in 1971, conducted by young Vietnam Veteran John Kerry, who later became the Honorable Senator from Massachusetts, Sgt Scott Camil gave testimony in regards to the conduct of Major John Murtha and the officers and men of the 1st Bn., 1st Marines.
Sgt. Camil's testimony reveals that Major John Murtha presided over a United States Marine Combat Unit that " cut off ears, cut off heads, called in artillery on Vietnamese villagers for games, randomly burned down the homes of innocent Vietnamese villagers and raped and sexually mutilated Vietnamese women with entrenching tools and tree limbs. "
John Murtha had a lifetime to defend himself and the Honor of the United States Marine Corps against these charges. Murtha did not defend himself.
In Marine circles it is widely believed that it was John Murtha who fabricated these bizarre incidents as part of Commandant David Shoup's exit strategy from Vietnam.
Regardless of whether these atrocities really happened or were fabricated, Major John Murtha brought shame and dishonor on the United States Marine Corps.
I wonder if Major John Murtha was thinking about the atrocities that he himself committed in Vietnam when he accused our young Marines of killing Iraqis " In Cold Blood. " at Haditha, or was he just knowingly lying again for his own self interest.
Go ahead and name the LPD 26 " The LPD John Murtha " ( or as Marines call him "Porky the Vagina Mutilator" ) … then take that ship out to sea unmanned and sink it.
No United States Marine should ever suffer the dishonor of serving on an acursed ship named after Major John Murtha.
Amen! The Haditha Marines' names and reputations were drug through the mud before they were even privileged enough to enjoy the rights they serve to protect were realized in the concept of innocence until proven guilty. I personally hope that Murtha is rotting in a painful and excruciatingly morose hell. No ship in any military outside landlocked Iran deserves to be named after this dishonorable waste of human flesh. And that's my opinion.
The video below says it all about John Murtha and liberals can't say shit about it. It's all true. Fact check it yourself...
Nancy Pelosi is rumored to be behind naming a ship after disgraced, corrupt John Murtha. (He has a lot in common with that evil witch Nancy Pelosi)
Just the sound of Pelosi's voice, the sight of her face and the fact she is behind this must make anyone in the military cringe!!
How about naming the ship after Michael Monsoor, a Navy seal and real American hero!
Click here and let us know who is more deserving...
How Obama became a Senator using dirty tactics. In 1996 Obama and a team of lawyers eliminated all his rivals from the ballot including incumbent Alice Palmer - allowing him to run unopposed.
Obama filed objections to all four of his Democratic rivals. He was the first one to ever do so.
Dirty tactics is what Obama is all about - race baiting, organized caucus intimidation, and lies about everything from Nafta to what he knows about his own church and his own close friends.
OBAMA IS A BULLY!
Will someone please rein in our relentlessly hectoring President? Barrack Hussein Obama has taken his gift for inspirational oratory—one of the traits that got him elected—and turned it into something darker and more insidious.
Bam is a bully. Bad enough that he bashes Wall Street, but this President has gone farther than any in modern history in putting the wrong kind of “bully” back into what Teddy Roosevelt had called the bully pulpit.
Obama’s latest broadside came over the weekend, when he vehemently criticized the state of Arizona and its (Republican) governor for passing a tough new law on illegal immigration.
The President called the measure “misguided” and all but labeled it un-American. He even ordered the Department of Justice, before the ink on this bill-signing has even dried, to examine the civil-rights “implications” of the new law. Seems like the courts and rights groups could handle that once any problem actually emerges.
Can you remember any other modern President, wagging a finger from on high, so directly and bitterly criticizing a new law passed by any state?
This is hubris at best and ignorance of the Constitution at worst. The U.S. was founded in part on the precept of states’ rights as an important counterweight to a rapacious federal government. Thus a President must step softly here, questioning gently but avoiding rancor and browbeating. READ MORE...
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has accused Arizona of opening the door "to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement." But Arizona has nothing on Mexico when it comes to cracking down on illegal aliens. While open-borders activists decry new enforcement measures signed into law in "Nazi-zona" last week, they remain deaf, dumb or willfully blind to the unapologetically restrictionist policies of our neighbors to the south.
The Arizona law bans sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, stiffens penalties against illegal alien day laborers and their employers, makes it a misdemeanor for immigrants to fail to complete and carry an alien registration document, and allows the police to arrest immigrants unable to show documents proving they are in the U.S. legally. If those rules constitute the racist, fascist, xenophobic, inhumane regime that the National Council of La Raza, Al Sharpton, Catholic bishops and their grievance-mongering followers claim, then what about these regulations and restrictions imposed on foreigners?
The Mexican government will bar foreigners if they upset "the equilibrium of the national demographics." How's that for racial and ethnic profiling?
-- If outsiders do not enhance the country's "economic or national interests" or are "not found to be physically or mentally healthy," they are not welcome. Neither are those who show "contempt against national sovereignty or security." They must not be economic burdens on society and must have clean criminal histories. Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care. READ MORE...
After Obamacare was signed into law last month several US corporations reported that the democrat’s health care bill would cost their company millions of dollars.
On top of AT&T’s $1 billion, the writedown wave so far includes Deere & Co., $150 million; Caterpillar, $100 million; AK Steel, $31 million; 3M, $90 million; and Valero Energy, up to $20 million. Verizon has also warned its employees about its new higher health-care costs, and there will be many more in the coming days and weeks.
In response, Congressional democrats announced that they would hold show trials to humiliate these US companies for the bad publicity.
After several more corporations announced their losses from Obamacare the democrats decided to cancel their Congressional dog and pony show. Today, Congressional democrats finally admitted the corporations were correct and that Obamacare would end up costing US companies billions of dollars. The New York Times reported:
When major companies declared that a provision of the new health care law would hurt earnings, Democrats were skeptical. But after investigating, House Democrats have concluded that the companies were right to tell investors and the government about the expected adverse effects of the law on their financial results…
In a memorandum summarizing its investigation, the Democratic staff of the committee said, “The companies acted properly and in accordance with accounting standards in submitting filings to the S.E.C. in March and April.”
Don't let anyone ever tell you that 'liberalism' is NOT a mental disorder. These people are insane...
Mark Levine lies through his teeth! He believes that a civil rights 'hero' wouldn't lie about being called the 'N' word. Well, we wouldn't call anyone who lies about being called the 'N' word a 'hero' but whatever. This civil rights 'hero' congressman DID lie; Rep. Lewis wasn't called the 'N' word, it was a lie and there's video to prove it.
How annoying is this President? You have to give this crowd of politically dumb zombies a ton of credit for tolerating the same old tired Obama and his played out talking points, list of imaginary accomplishments, lies and deception.
We didn't know Superman Obama fixed 'The worst economic crisis since we seen since the great depression.' He claims he cut taxes, blah blah blah.
The President has done nothing but create MASSIVE amounts of debt and increase unemployment while bribing congressman to pass a disastrous healthcare bill and demonizing MOST Americans who opposed it. And these idiots' are applauding?
How pathetic...
In this video, Barack Obama lied so many times his nose looks bigger. It's amazing how he gets away with it...
What a sniveling little tool. The 'bi-curious' Matthews still has a severe man-crush on Barack Obama and his hatred for George W. Bush is making him look like an angry little troll. Does he ever wonder why he has the lowest ratings of all the cable news programs?
FLASHBACK! Michael Savage lays into Chris Matthews for making death threats against Rush Limbaugh. See video below.
CAUTION! Listening to Michael Savage can be addicting because of his brutal honesty and 100% rating on telling the truth.
Michael Savage is one of the very few who tell it like it REALLY is...
Desperate times call for desperate measures – even if it means camping out in the rain for a chance at a job application.
Hundreds of job-seekers did just that in Queens in the hopes of landing a coveted union job.
Construction workers, engineers, electricians -- hundreds spent the weekend right here. Many left with a job application, while many others walked away empty-handed.
"The sky's the limit after this!" said Aaron Johnson of Mount Vernon.
Johnson is living month-to-month, struggling to pay the bills, with a 4-year-old daughter to support -- and he was one of the lucky ones.
After three days of sleeping on the street, he left with one of just 750 job applications handed out for a position as an elevator technician apprentice -- a secure job with pension and benefits and an earning potential up to $40 an hour READ MORE...
NOTE- Expect more long lines to fill out applications as unemployment continues to rise, no matter how the Obama administration tries to spin the numbers and lie to the American people.
This is what happens when you put a Marxist minded 'community organizer' in charge of the United States economy. He recruits other Ivy League socialist radicals who have never ran a business or worked a cash register at 7-11 before.
When you vote 'democrat', you're helping to elect politicians who give power to 'domestic terrorist' scumbags like Nancy Pelosi, the most DESPISED political figure in America. She's also the most DESPISED woman in America...
OFFICE POLITICS
The economic report released last week by Health and Human Services, which indicated that President Barack Obama's health care "reform" law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, had been submitted to the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the Congressional votes on the bill, according to career HHS sources, who added that Sebelius's staff refused to review the document before the vote was taken.
"The reason we were given was that they did not want to influence the vote," says an HHS source. "Which is actually the point of having a review like this, you would think."
The analysis, performed by Medicare's Office of the Actuary, which in the past has been identified as a "nonpolitical" office, set off alarm bells when submitted. "We know a copy was sent to the White House via their legislative affairs staff," says the HHS staffer, "and there were a number of meetings here almost right after the analysis was submitted to the secretary's office. Everyone went into lockdown, and people here were too scared to go public with the report." READ MORE...
Cafferty Slams Obama For His Position on the Arizona Immigration Law
"Washington's position on illegal immigration is patently dishonest from the top down"
Cafferty: "Instead of simply closing the borders and enforcing the existing law so they could turn their attention to something like the national debt and the fact that this country is bankrupt, instead we're gonna get this freak show. Washington's position on illegal immigration is patently dishonest from the top down, no enforcement, no border security, just pandering to the hispanic voters and the corporations that hire the illegals and then when one of the states that being ravaged by the presence of 460k illegal aliens inside its borders does something about it, the President says that's misguided, what a shame"...
After slamming Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, is Jack Cafferty a 'rational thinking liberal?' Wow...
"Jack, please give us the pill that cured the mental disorder called 'liberalism.' We know you have it. It's really important that you save your fellow liberals so that they too can think rationally for once just like you're now doing. Thank you."
Yesterday, we revealed yesterday’s examination of Rep. Andre Carson’s contemporaneous account that he gave reporters versus actual video footage of the events at the Cannon Office Building. The video showing the congressmen walking down the steps unencumbered by the hostile, racist mob that we had been told was there proved that Rep. Carson’s description was exaggerated at best, fabricated at worst.
We asked our readers for any other footage and testimonials they might have from that day in Washington DC. In the true spirit of citizen journalists holding our government accountable, we received many tips. The following compilation further exposes the myth that Rep. Carson passed on to the eager media that day.
Elected officials (Cleaver-Lewis-Carson) who LIE and make FALSE accusations of racism (like they did) should be immediately removed from their positions and new elections should be held to fill their seat.
NOTE- Outlaw false racism claims
I am writing regarding Jean Towry's recent letter ("Outlaw False Labeling," June 24). I wholeheartedly agree.
We need to pass a law making it a misdemeanor to falsely accuse someone of being a racist. Make the penalty a fine of $200 or $300, payable to the city.
Too many times minorities falsely accuse another person of racism. To make a claim of racism there needs to be substantial proof.
I think that frequently some minorities claim a person is a racist because the minority doesn't like a decision by the other person, or they really don't want to be treated like every other non-minority person. They want special treatment and consideration.
I think our society is making great progress in abating racist actions and decisions. However, if minorities are allowed to call another person a racist without substantial proof, then who is the minority then?
When Barack Obama ran for office, he promised to change the culture of Washington, blah, blah, blah. These openings more or less write themselves, don’t they? Anyway, to no one’s great shock, yet another senior Obama administration figure has managed to find ways to cash in on the sector she’s supposed to be regulating. Meet Cathy Zoi, assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy — and Green Entrepreneur on the taxpayer dime:
A top Obama administration official who’s helping lead a campaign for energy conservation has a major financial interest in two companies that are poised to benefit from the government’s spending.
Cathy Zoi, the assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy, owns between $250,000 and $500,000 worth of stock in Landis+Gyr, a Swiss-based manufacturer of special electric meters that are used to create an efficient “smart” grid of electricity use.
Her husband, Robin Roy, owns options on at least 120,000 shares of Serious Materials, a leading manufacturer of energy-efficient windows that’s been singled out for praise by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. As an officer of the company, Roy receives options on an additional 2,500 shares every month and will continue to do so until October 2012. READ MORE...
Update: Freedom Foundation Minnesota first uncovered the Zoi story and produced this video, as well as collecting some of the relevant documents:
The Hill: Republicans poked fun at President Barack Obama's "Main Street tour" on Tuesday, pointing to the high unemployment rates in the states he's visiting. The Republican National Committee (RNC) mocked Obama's trips to Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, calling it the "jobless tour," and highlighting companies in each state which have claimed adverse effects from the president's healthcare law, as well as the increases in the unemployment rates in those states.
Not that any of this comes as a surprise to those who paid attention to the ObamaCare bill, of course. I wrote about the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) twice in December, first when the CBO scored the bill as a $130 billion deficit reduction, and the second time just before the passage of ObamaCare by the Senate. In both posts, I noted how the IPAB was set up specifically as a rationing system, which ObamaCare advocates denied, but which none other than OMB Director Peter Orszag confirms in this interview from earlier this month, caught by Naked Emperor News for Breitbart TV: READ MORE...
"How much of that s--tty deal did you sell to your clients?"
It's funny to watch the democrats, who caused the housing collapse with Fannie/Freddie/Community Reinvestment Act, which contributed to ruining the economy, talk tough against the same Goldman Sachs who have the democrats in their pockets..
How come the democrats are not grilling Franklin Raines and Barney Frank over Fannie/Freddie on CSPAN? Congressional Democrats successfully blocking regulation by Republicans of Freddie & Fannie the GSE responsible for pushing "affordable housing" to low income - no income individuals.
Thank you FOX News for being a true news network and covering real news. FOX actually does it's job, unlike ABC, NBC, CNN and CBS...
See the All-Star IDIOT cast starring members of the congressional black caucus of 'dummies' Maxine Waters, Gregory Meeks, Artur Davis and Lacy Clay, the gay prostitution ring leader congressman Barney Frank and the master dirtbag himself, who raked in 91 million dollars and a pension from Fannie/Freddie, Franklin Raines, Obama's homeboy.
With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there.
Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America's immigration laws.
"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation."
We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.
What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?
He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
He has denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate anyone's civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.
How's that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership? READ MORE...
gAyBC (ABC) called this a peaceful protest, yet called the tea party protests 'ugly.' The tea parties, hundreds of them, didn't net one incident of violence or an arrest. The mainstream media is so pathetic...
On Saturday's Good Morning America, reporter Mike Von Fremd downplayed the violence of protesters against Arizona's new immigration law. He spun, "Riot police were called in to try and control demonstrators protesting outside the capital. Most were peaceful. A handful threw bottles at police and were arrested." Yet, ABC derided March's Tea Party rallies as "very ugly," despite the fact that there were no arrests.
In contrast, on March 20, World News host David Muir scolded, "Protesters against the [health care] plan gathered on the streets of the capital where late today we learned words shouted turned very ugly, reports of racial and homophobic slurs, one protester actually spitting on a Congressman." Continuing to fret over those opposed the bill, he complained, "Late word from Washington tonight about just how ugly the crowds gathered outside the Longworth office building have become."
If Tea Party protesters had thrown bottles at members of Congress, it seems unlikely that ABC would have described them as "mostly peaceful."
Over on NBC's Today show on Saturday, correspondent Jose Diaz Balart played it straight with regard to immigration rallies: "Tensions were high outside the Capitol. Four protesters were arrested." On CBS's Early Show, Chris Wragge made only a quick reference to the protests: "On Friday, there were protests against the bill outside the state capitol in Phoenix."
Wall Street donated tons of money to Democrats in 2008 for one reason: they were winning. While they hedged their bets by contributing substantial amounts to Republicans, Democrats won the Wall Street Sweepstakes not because of some grand devotion to their policies, but in order to maintain some leverage after the election. That’s not exactly a surprise, although after the AIG witch hunt and the class-warfare shrieks in the early days of this Congress, even some Wall Street execs began questioning that strategy. READ MORE...
LIBERAL TRANSLATION: 'Obama needs those dumb minorities and naive women who didn't attend Harvard who will do anything for a handout to work their tail off to make sure the same idiots who are ruining this country get elected and still stay in power'
The FAILURE of a President with a 43% approval rating (and sinking) named Barack Hussein Obama NOW needs the help of minorities and women...again. Forget about those white union guys who voted for him in November of 2008, they NOW know Obama's a fraud and a compulsive liar..
The 'white' liberal Barack Obama wants to do what liberals do best, USE blacks, Latinos and women for votes. Will these 'idiots' fall for the 'con artist' Barack Obama's charm again?!?
Can you imagine George Bush soliciting the help of all white males who helped him get elected? There would be outrage. How does this TERRIBLE President Barack Obama get away with this? This is so pathetic to come out on YouTube and beg the same group of people that liberals have lied to and oppressed for years, to support them again this November. 'Put down the damn kool-aid already!'
Story from HotAir-
Drudge has this clip highlighted with the headline, “OBAMA PLAYS RACE CARD” in bold letters at the top of the page. Ben Smith at Politico goes with a less-provocative description of “unusual demographic frankness” in describing this effort from the DNC to get the troops rallied for the midterm elections. Both descriptions seem more ironic after watching this wan, mailed-in effort from Barack Obama that reminds one more of his video extolling Martha Coakley’s virtues to skeptical Massachusetts voters: READ MORE...
What do more than 25 returning combat veterans, a beauty queen, a general surgeon, a scientist, talk-radio hosts, a political analyst, a former welfare mom and Richard Nixon's grandson have in common?
Most have never held political office – none are garden-variety politicians – but they're all determined to take back Congress this year from the hands of incumbents who they believe do not represent America's best interests.
The following are just a few unique characters vying for seats in the Senate and House of Representatives this year:
Nick Popaditch, decorated Marine veteran
Decorated Marine veteran Nick Popaditch, 42, a gunnery sergeant who was famously photographed smoking a cigar after the fall of Baghdad, fought in Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm and, more recently, Operation Iraqi Freedom.
He's hoping to win a seat in California's mostly Democratic 51st Congressional District – a district that runs along the border between California and Mexico – as a conservative Republican. The incumbent, Democrat Bob Filner, has held the seat since 1992.
In 2003, Popaditch's unit helped topple the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad's Firdos Square. He was awarded the Silver Star for combat action in Fallujah after he was hit in the head by a rocket-propelled grenade and blinded in one eye on April 7, 2004, during Operation Vigilant Resolve. The blast left him with only eight percent vision in his other eye. READ MORE...
With all of the really stupid things the democrats have said and done in the past few years, they have given the republicans more ammunition than a 'right-wing extremist.'
The republicans can make hundreds of videos just like this one, and if Michael Steele can stop spending the RNC's money like a sober democrat they could run all of these ads on prime time television.
GM released a commercial that touted its paying back the taxpayers in full, with interest, 5 years ahead of schedule, except:
1) GM was loaned an other $49.5 billion in a TARP escrow account 2) GM used money from the TARP escrow account to pay back the TARP loan (aka - pay off one credit card with another) 3) They did it to get a $10 billion loan from DOE and not make it look bad
It is an utter fraud and lie. GM can't even cover its own expenses yet!
HotAir- The backers of the bailouts to General Motors cried with triumph this week when the automaker announced that they had repaid their bailout loans ahead of schedule. That amounted to proof of the wisdom of government intervention, the argument went, and wondered aloud why bailout critics didn’t acknowledge their errors. Perhaps it’s because the government essentially got paid off with even more government money: During an April 20 hearing on Capital Hill, Sen. Tom Carper, (D-Del.) asked some pointed questions of Neil Barofsky, the “special watch dog” on the Wall Street Bailout, aka, TARP.
“It’s good news in that they’re reducing their debt,” Barofsky said of the accelerated GM payments, “but they’re doing it by taking other available TARP money.”…
“It sounds like it’s kind of like taking money out of one pocket and putting in the other,” said Carper, who got a nod of agreement from Barofsky. “The way that payment is going to be made is by drawing down on an equity facility of other TARP money.”
This prompted a stern letter from Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), who backed the bailouts, to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner about the shell game being played by the Obama administration and GM (via Yid with Lid, emphases mine): READ MORE...
PHOENIX -- Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona, the nation's busiest gateway for human and drug smuggling from Mexico.
With hundreds of protesters outside the state Capitol shouting that the bill would lead to civil rights abuses, Brewer said critics were "overreacting" and that she wouldn't tolerate racial profiling.
"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," Brewer said after signing the law. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation." READ MORE...
'Who cares if Arizona has less murders, rapes, kidnappings, assaults and welfare recipients. Who cares that illegals are bankrupting the education, health care and the judicial system. The democrats just need their vote. SCREW everyone else including YOU the taxpayer.'
The Obama/Clinton/media left are comfortable with the unrest in our society today. It allows them to blame and demonize their opponents and expand their power and control.
The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence. That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused "loud and angry voices" on the airwaves (i.e., radio talk-show hosts like me) of having incited Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. What self-serving nonsense. Liberals are perfectly comfortable with antigovernment protest when they're not in power.
From the halls of the Ivy League to the halls of Congress, from the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq to the anti-capitalist protests during International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, we're used to seeing leftist malcontents take to the streets. Sometimes they're violent, breaking shop windows with bricks and throwing rocks at police. Sometimes there are arrests. Not all leftists are violent, of course. But most are angry. It's in their DNA. They view the culture as corrupt and capitalism as unjust.
Now the liberals run the government and they're using their power to implement their radical agenda. Mr. Obama and his party believe that the election of November 2008 entitled them to make permanent, "transformational" changes to our society. In just 16 months they've added more than $2 trillion to the national debt, essentially nationalized the health-care system, the student-loan industry, and have their sights set on draconian cap-and-trade regulations on carbon emissions and amnesty for illegal aliens.
Had President Obama campaigned on this agenda, he wouldn't have garnered 30% of the popular vote.
Like the millions of citizens who've peacefully risen up and attended thousands of rallies in protest, I seek nothing more than the preservation of the social contract that undergirds our society. I do not hate the government, as the left does when it is not running it. I love this country. And because I do, I insist that the temporary inhabitants of high political office comply with the Constitution, honor our God-given unalienable rights, and respect our hard-earned private property. For this I am called seditious, among other things, by some of the very people who've condemned this society?
Yesterday, Obama left the door open on imposing a new federal sales tax in order to get more revenues to the federal government, reversing previous denials. CNBC notes that Barack Obama’s sudden U-turn on a value-added tax (VAT) has been carefully prepared by subtle changes in his rhetoric on protecting the middle class (emphasis mine): READ MORE...
Michele Bachmann, 'we have a gangster government.' She's right, so what's the problem?
What do Glenn Beck, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Joseph Farah have in common?
They're all prominently featured in a new list of 40 "patriots" and "enablers" that a left-leaning group thinks Americans should be concerned about.
In its new report titled, "Meet the Patriots," the Southern Poverty Law Center states: "In the last year and a half, militias and the larger antigovernment 'patriot' movement have exploded, accompanied by the rapid expansion of other sectors of the radical right. This spectacular growth is the result of several factors, including anger over major political, demographic and economic changes in America, along with the popularization of radical ideas and conspiracy theories by ostensibly mainstream politicians and media commentators."
It defines "patriots" as "people who generally believe that the federal government is an evil entity that is engaged in a secret conspiracy to impose martial law, herd those who resist into concentration camps, and force the United States into a socialistic 'New World Order.'"
The report calls Fox News host Glenn Beck "the Ringmaster" of the movement, noting, "With his weepy, chalkboard-scrawling appeals to Americans fearful that their government is leading them down the path to ruin, Glenn Beck has rocketed up the ladder of conservative icons and is using his popularity to directly shape a far-right resurgence."
Regarding Bachmann, the Republican congresswoman from Minnesota, the report says, "When it comes to spreading fear of a menacing federal government infested with anti-American elements, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann can give even the most paranoid militiaman a run for his money." READ MORE...
While President Obama assails the culture of greed and recklessness practiced by the men of Goldman Sachs, his administration is infested with them. The White House can no more disown Government Sachs than Da Boss-in-chief can disown Chicago politics.
Obama is headed to Wall Street on Thursday to demand "financial regulatory reform" -- just as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed civil suit against Goldman Sachs for mortgage-related fraud. Question the timing? Darn tootin'. There are no coincidences in the perpetually orchestrated Age of O. Everyone from disgraced former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to analysts at the Brookings Institution and Barclays Capital to the GOP leadership and Rush Limbaugh has noted the reeking political opportunism in the air READ MORE...
Sometimes you have a headline that makes the rest of the story superfluous, but here's the background. Actor Lance Baxter, otherwise known as "D.C. Douglas," currently known as the man who informs you how much Geico can save you on car insurance, left a message last month with FreedomWorks in which he asked the group how many "mentally retarded" people it had on staff and what it would do when a tea partyer "killed someone." On April 14, FreedomWorks put his voicemail online.
Today, Douglas reports he's been dropped from Geico's campaign. His dramatic news release is here; he claims to have been motivated by "the recent gay and racial slurs slung by Tea Party members at Congressman Barney Frank and Representative John Lewis during the Health Care Reform Weekend," and says he's "open to any attorneys taking on this case pro bono."
In the meantime, if you want to hire him: READ MORE...
You knew it was coming, now here it is. I don’t know what Zo could have said or done to get under Charles Blow’s skin — I’m guessing that the, gasp, lack of formal education might have something to do with it — but he was the only speaker at the Dallas tea party specifically named in the now infamous “minstrel show” hit piece. Come for the nasty racial cracks, stay for the gratuitous reference to prior drug abuse: They saved the best for last, however: Alfonzo “Zo” Rachel. According to his Web site, Zo, who is black and performs skits as “Zo-bama,” allowed drugs to cost him “his graduation.” Before ripping into the president for unconstitutional behavior, he cautioned, “I don’t have the education that our president has, so if I misinterpret some things in the founding documents I kind of have an excuse.” That was the understatement of the evening. READ MORE...
Ron Paul makes a really good point here. We believe Obama's a Marxist and a Corporatist. Does Obama do this to fund his radical agenda while collapsing the economy? We think so...
Ron Paul would have been real 'hope and change.' Obama is nothing more than a radical, corrupt, charming con artist.
President Obama likes to say we need to clean up Wall Street. But let’s be clear: He is pushing a job-killing bailout bill for Wall Street that benefits his top financial contributor from the 2008 campaign – a firm that just happens to be under investigation by the SEC for defrauding investors.
Despite the President’s rhetoric, his support for the Democrats’ bailout bills gives big Wall Street banks a permanent, taxpayer-funded safety net by designating them “too big to fail.” Just whose side is President Obama on? Here are the facts:
WALL STREET GIVES GENEROUSLY TO THEN-CANDIDATE OBAMA:
• Goldman Sachs, recently charged with defrauding investors, was President Obama’s top Wall Street contributor during the 2008 election cycle, donating nearly $1 million to his campaign.
• Securities & investment firms in general were the fifth largest contributor to President Obama’s 2008 campaign, donating nearly $15 million.
• Big banks also donated more than $3 million to Obama during the 2008 election cycle.
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RHETORIC SAYS “GET TOUGH ON WALL STREET”:
“We will hold Wall Street accountable. We will protect and empower consumers in our financial system. That’s what reform is all about. That’s what we’re fighting for.” (Weekly Address, 4/17/10)
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S ACTIONS PUSH PERMANENT BAILOUTS FOR HIS WALL STREET FRIENDS:
• The Dodd Gives Wall Street a Pre-Existing $50 Billion Bailout Slush Fund. Sen. Dodd’s financial bailout bill would create a $50 billion ‘orderly resolution fund’ ($150 billion in Rep. Barney Frank’s bill) that could be repeatedly replenished from industry assessment.
• The Dodd Bill Gives Wall Street a Treasury-Backed Credit Line. The FDIC would be authorized to borrow from Treasury up to the amount of cash left in the ‘resolution fund’ plus 90 percent of the value of the assets of any and all too-big-to-fail firms in its control.
• The Dodd Bill Provides a Government-Guaranteed to Wall Street Debt. The FDIC would be authorized to guarantee the debt of any solvent bank, bank holding company, or affiliate in any amount subject only to an aggregate debt limit set by the Treasury Department.
• The Dodd Bill Institutionalizes Unlimited Wall Street Bailouts. The FDIC, as the resolution agency for too-big-to-fail firms, would be given wide latitude to use resources to make payments to anyone in any amounts, at their own discretion.
• The Dodd Bill Gives Wall Street Bridge Bank Authority. The FDIC would be authorized to create a bridge institution as part of resolving a covered institution and vest the FDIC with broad authority to use the orderly resolution fund in connection with the bridge institution.
While President Obama and congressional Democrats push job-killing legislation that gives permanent bailouts to their top campaign contributors, Republicans are fighting to end the bailouts and create jobs for families and small businesses. Republicans believe the best way to protect taxpayers is by reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that sparked the meltdown by giving high-risk loans to people who couldn’t afford it. READ MORE...
In the wake of reports of the beating of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s top fundraiser, Allee Bautsch, and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, outside a high-dollar GOP fundraiser in New Orleans, video of the protest placed on YouTube by individuals involved began to disappear.
New Orleans City Business had a video reporter on scene and their footage of the protest outside Brennan’s Restaurant is now available via local news outlet The Hayride with much more in their latest update. READ MORE...
It's a shame she doesn't even realize how dumb she is. Let us help her out, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Rachael Maddow, Chris Matthews to name a few on MSNBC alone.
Even Mika was wondering what planet Joan was from. Most liberals live in a bubble, Joan Walsh lives in a bubble with a lack of oxygen. It's scary that this woman's magazine has probably influenced some of their readers..
As for Joe Scarborough, he still needs to 'get a pair.' Of course, we don't expect much out of him anyway, but to call Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage 'extremist's on the right' because they're exposing the truth and doing the job that the mainstream media doesn't do, makes him a kool-aid drinking sucker.
Most people who criticize Rush, Beck and Savage have never even listened to them. Those moron-types should sit down and listen to them and fact check what they're saying. There's a reason they have millions of listeners, it's called 'credibility!'
People don't want to waste their time listening to programs that are dishonest, which is why NBC, CNN and liberal talk radio has failed miserably and why 'Air America' filed for bankruptcy.
